National Republican., 1887-10-10
Tho morning light Is breaking,
The darkness disappears,
The sons of men are waking
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hymn
Tho morning light Is breaking,
The darkness disappears,
The sons of men are waking
To penitential tears.
The Rev. T. Dewitt Talmage, d. D.. read
and explained passages OF Scripture concern.
ing the dawn Of universal righteousness. The
subject of his sermon was "Unocoupied
Fields" and the text from Romans, chap. Nv,
v. 20 "Lest Ishould build upon another mans
foundation" Or. Talmage said:
Stirring reports come from oil parts OF
America showing what a great WORK the
churches OF God are doing, and congratulate
have been going the rounds saying that tho
outside beneyolences of this particular church
are neglected, when the fact Is that large sums
this church for ali styles Of good objects. not
always through the boards Of our own domina-
ton. This church was built by all denomina-
land and other lands aud that obligation has
led us to rai.e money for many objects not
connected with our denomination, and this
accounts for the fact that we have not regu-
larry contributed to all the boards commended.
But rejoice In tnat you have done as church
magnificent work, and am grateful that we
have received during Gp inc year by the con- con-
twenty-five souls, which fact mention, not in
Boosting, but In defense OF this church, show.
ing 1t has been neither idle nor inefficient.
The most Of our accession s have been from the
outside world, so that, taking the idea of my
text, We have not been building on other
In laying out the plan of his missionary tour
Paul sought out towns and cities which had
not yet been preached TO. He goes to Corinth,
a city mentioned for splendor and vice, and
Sanhedrim were ready TO leap with both feet
upon the Christian religion. He foels he has
especial work to do, and he means to do 1t.
What was the result9 The grandest life of
usefulness that man ever lived. We modern
Christian workers are not aDt 10 initiate Paul
We build on other peoples foundations. II
with families all OF whom have been pious.
Do we gather a Sabbath school class. we want
good boys ana girls, hair combed. faces
this day is apt to be built out Of other churches
Some ministers spend all their time In fishing
r., r. other peoples ponds, ana they throw the
nS ana throa ss ne S1d into suShea S
church pond and bring out q Presbyterian, or
there is a religious row in some neighborina
from that % pond, and we take them @ ali in nv with iii
one sweep OF the net. What is gained? Arso.
lntely nothing for the general cause Of Christ
i Is only az In an army, when a regiment is
the Tennessee to the Potomac.
What strengthens the army Is new recruits.
What have always desired Is that while We
ere courteous to those coming from other
hocks, we build our church, not out of other
churches, but out Of the world. lest we build
on another mans foundation. The fact is, this
is big world. When, In our schoolboy days,
we learned the diameter and circumference Of
this planet, We did not learn half. 1t is tho
latitude and longitude and diameter aud cir.
cumfeTence of want and woe and sin that no
figures can calculate. This one spiritual con-
tinent Of wretchedncss reaches across all
zones, and II / were called to give its greo-
graphical boundary would say It Is bounded
on the north and south aud east and west by
the great heart of Gods sympathy and love.
oh, It is a great world. Since o'clock this
have been born, and all these multiplied popu-
lations are to bo reached of the Gospel. In
England or In our eastern American cities we
are being much crowded. and an acre of ground
is Of great value, but out west five hundred
acres is q small farm, and twenty thousand
acres is no unusual possession. There Is vast
eid hdn plenty more
We need as churches to stop bombarding the
cid ironclad sinners that have been proof
ior ihst ehufe6 Wnieh lacks tSe sp evans
gelism, spending on one chandelier enough to
light five hundred souls TO glory, and in one
carved pillar enough to have made thousand
and doing less good than many a log cabin
meeting house with tallow candles stuck in
wooden sockets, and minister who has never
seen q college, or known the difference be.
tween Greek and Choctaw. We need as
churches TO get into sympathy with the great
outside void, and let them know that none are
SO en.hearted or hardly bestead that will
not be welcomed. NO" says some fastidous
Christian, 81 don't like to be crowded In
church Don't put any one In nay pew Ny
great multitude that no man can number
pow. What Ms tha select few to-day
assembled in the Christian churches compared
with the migttier millions outside of them.
eight hundred thousand in Brooklyn, but less
than one hundred thousand in the churches
Many OF the churches are like u hospital that
should advertise that its patients must have
nothing verse than toothache or run -arounds
but no broken heads, no crushed ankles, no frac'
tured thighs. Give us for treatment moderate
sinners, velvet.coated sinners and sinners with
agloss on. II is as though a man had farm
OF three thousand acres and put all his work
OF corn, never 80 big heads Of wheat, he would
remain poor. The church OF God has bestowed
Its chief care on one acre, and has raised
men snt and be ed Is m t6s ward
That means North and South America, Europe
Asia, and Africa, and all the Islands Of the
sea. II Is as though after great battle there
were left fiftv thousand wounded and dyinp
on the field. and three surgeons gave all theii
time TO three patients under their charge
The major general comes In and says to the
doctors, "Come out here and look at the nearly )
fifty thousand dying for lack Of surgical atten-
dance. "No." say the three doctors, standing
there tanning their patients, 1--WE have three
them, and when we are not positively busy
with their wounds II takes all our time to keeI
the flies off," In this awful battle OF sin and
do not let us spend all our time in taking care
comes. "Ge Into the world" say prac
ey ehocs casss ssna ana am buss ssVs seepns
of the flies" There are multtudes TO-DAY
who have never had any Christian worker
look them in the eye, and i with earnestness in
long ago have been in the kingdom. Ny
friends, religion is either a sham or tremen
6oqs fesiy II Rs shan Let rs
way to the bar OF God unified tor the ordeal
and what are we doing -,
siders we must drop all technicalities out o
our religion. When we talk to people abou
the hypostatie union and French Encyclope
dianisn and Erastinianism and Complutensi
anism. we are as impolitic and as little under.
stood as II physician should talk TO an ordl
nary patient about the pericardium and inter
of us come out OF the theological seminarie
so loaded up that we take the nrst ten years /,
show our people how much we know and tn,
as we know, and at the end find that neithe
OF us know anything as we ought 70 know
Here are hundreds and thousands OF SHINING
allie Just one thing-that Jesus Christ came L
save them, and Will save them now But w
go into profound and elaborate defnition o
AZ az ,bH ater an ihe
States who can tell what Justification is. l will
read you the definition
classification is purely q forensic act, tn
act of a Judge sitting in the forum, In wich tn
Supreme Ruler and Judge, who is accountable
to none. and who alone knows the manner II
which the ends of His universal governmen
can best be obtained, reckons that which wa
done by the substitute In the same manner a
4 II had been done by those who believe Il
the substitute, and not on account of any
thing done by them, but purely upon acooun
of this gracious method of reckoning, grant
them the full remission OF their sins.
Now, what is Justification? will tell 20,
what justification is-when n sinner believe
God lots him oil. One summer In Connection
went TO large factory, and saw over tn
door written the words, "No admittauoe
entered and saw over the next poor IN
admittaDce." OF course j entered. I got In
side and found II a min faptofy and thay Nyar